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Detailed Description

Ada is a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications – and embedded systems in particular – where reliability and efficiency are essential. It was originally developed in the early 1980s (this version is generally known as Ada 83) by a team led by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. The language was revised and enhanced in an upward compatible fashion in the early 1990s, under the leadership of Mr. Tucker Taft from Intermetrics in the U.S. The resulting language, Ada 95, was the first internationally standardized (ISO) Object-Oriented Language. Under the auspices of ISO, a further (minor) revision was completed as an amendment to the standard; this version of the language is known as Ada 2005. Work is currently in progress on some additional features (including support for program anotations) and is expected to be completed in 2012.

Benefit to Fedora

For Fedora this brings the Ada support right up to date and alongside Debian. It also enables our developers to use a powerful, secure and fast programming language.

Scope

Required steps are:

Ada Packaging Guidelines - accepted

Support of Ada 2012 specification - in progress

GprBuild - Gnat project build (Requres XMLAda) - approved

GtkAda - Ada bindings for GTK - approved

QtAda - Ada bindings for QT - ready for review

GPS - GNAT Programming Studio - in progress

AWS - Ada web server and tools for http:// and other protocols - ready for review

Gdb - Ada support for GDB (need hard-working with GDB upstream and AdaCore is needed) - in progress

Matreshka - a set of Ada libraries to help to develop information systems. - under review

How To Test

No special hardware is needed.

For install compiler and project-file use:

$ yum install fedora-gnat-project-common gprbuild

Use any examples GPRs for build and test

User Experience

End users won't notice the difference. Developers will have a more powerful and up to date Ada to use.

Dependencies

None

Contingency Plan

None necessary. We should fix existing packages in order to help the Community. We should also monitor upstream development process for potentially discovered issues and proactively apply patches.

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